Christopher Santoro Email & Phone Number

Cranston, Ri, Us

Santoro Design transforms early-stage e-commerce and tech start-ups into powerfully competitive businesses through strategic branding and website design. As the Founder and Creative Director, I work with emboldened start-up teams and SMB's on creating authentic brand presences, strategically rooted in their unique stories. I lead clients through iterative, collaborative exercises to establish both scalable visual and verbal languages, which are then extrapolated onto various brand touch-points—print, web, wayfinding, and experiential. Additionally, I manage & coordinate with freelancers and other vendors throughout all stages of the project, ensuring successful final products within budget. Clients include: Puff Herbals, Transhealth, Cloudelligent, Lynn Music Foundation, Beyond Booze, and Researched Nutritionals.

St Louis, Mo 63141, Mo, Us

As a contract UX/UI Designer at Perficient, I primarily work with project teams on creating design system libraries and prototypes for web experiences and applications, as well as occasionally supporting the UX Architect on wireframing. Clients include Cummins, DTE, and Mass Virtual.

Sanda, formerly known as Sanshou and Chinese kickboxing, is a martial art that was originally developed for the Chinese military and is now a modern, full-contact sport. I lead morning Sanda Fundamentals classes, which place more focus on technique-building, stamina building, and coordination.

Boston, Ma, Us

As a contract Senior Designer in the Marketing & Communications department, I lead the design of various website pages, updates to the Mar-comm design system, and other sales materials for both print and digital. I collaborate with the design, copywriting, and engineering teams on each project to ensure project objectives are being met, while also reporting to Heads of Design and Brand/Creative respectively.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

As the contract senior designer at Altr, I worked with the Creative Director and design team on designing scalable design systems for websites and web apps, for clients ranging from the non-profit and health/tech sectors.

Warren, Ri, Us

As the senior designer at Linchpin, and one of three designers on the Creative team, I work with the Creative Director on designing web experiences for clients ranging from B2B and enterprise e-commerce. Under the Creative Director’s supervision, I straddle the line of design and art direction by working with clients to establish meaningful visual styles, prior to design system creation. Additionally, I utilize my brand strategy background for ongoing work with key stakeholders in the revamp of the internal brand strategy. I execute design from start to finish, interfacing with developers throughout development and Q/A to ensure a successful build. Clients include Fluval, NWN Carousel, HARI, New England Institute of Technology, Cloudelligent and Embark Trucks.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

As a contract brand designer, I worked with the product marketing team on a variety of different inbound campaign deliverables—leading the art direction and design for landing pages, ebooks and slide decks, and accompanying email blasts. I worked on landing page UI, and tradeshow booth design before the pandemic hit.

Salem, Ma, Us

known.creative is an independent, Boston-based, end-to-end digital creative agency that grows businesses through spirited brand & marketing strategies, design, development and digital advertising. I co-founded the agency in 2014, and I am now one of four managing partners, as well as one of three designers on our creative team. My duties at known have ranged from leading brand discovery workshops with clients, copywriting, working with the design team to conceptualize and implement on all deliverables, woring with development throughout development and Q/A, working with print and tradeshow graphics vendors, and general administrative tasks.

Boston, Ma, Us

Since 2016 I've had the privilege of returning to my alma matter, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, to teach college-level design to both Continuing Education and Undergraduate Programs. The classes I've taught to date are as follows:Fall 2016: Graphic Design II (Continuing Education)Spring 2017: Graphic Design II (Continuing Education)Fall 2017: Graphic Design II (Undergraduate)Spring 2018: Graphic Design Portfolio (Undergraduate)

Boston, Ma, Us

As a contract designer, I assisted the creative team with design and production duties for various print, digital and OOH advertising. Clients worked on include: Assembly Row, Breeder's Cup, Red Cloud, MaidPro, Mercedez-Benz of Burlington

Boston, Ma, Us

I worked with the EMSA team at Northeastern University to create a wide variety of both print and digital collateral, including web ad banners for the Graduate program, promotional materials for Parent Orientation, and digital versions of the 2015 Undergraduate Admit Pack. I also assisted creative and production on program slicks for the Graduate program.

As a contract graphic designer, I assisted the creative team on various short-run projects for large cosmetic clients, including web banners and email blasts. I also assisted in creating concepts for start-up branding solutions.

Manchester, Nh, Us

I was part of a three-person team assisting with the assemblage and production of packaging for a new line of Adhesive Backed SKUs.

I assisted the Creative/Marketing team with creating and assembling files for print, files that ranged from window clings to bench wraps. Additionally, I created email blasts and web-store banners.

North Chicago, Illinois, Us

Watertown, Ma, Us

Starting out as a graphic design intern, and later on progressing into a contract designer position, I collaborated with the creative team on various projects including (but not limited to) MORE Advertising branding collateral, HomeBase Program Annual Report 2012, Race To the Top: Year 2 Annual Report, Mass In Motion promotional materials, Institute for Health and Recovery, and Mothers For Justice and Equality event materials.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Graphic Design

Graphic Design

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